This should be working, and sometimes it does. I'm still trying to work out why it sometimes doesn't. I'll see what I can do about this, but the forums may go live before it is fixed. In the mean time you should be able to force tooltips on in your Forum Settings (either from the User Settings or from the top of forum & thread pages) by disabling and then re-enabling them.

Karlina wrote:

Please give us the option to keep using the current skins if we want to. I could learn to live with the new one if absolutely necessary but I MUCH prefer the existing one. It's cleaner and simpler, and that's key when it comes to forums IMO. I'm not here to admire the shiny buttons and borders and sidebars. I'm here to read posts.

All the buttons and stuff are brighter and more vivid and... bubbly... and the actual content of the posts seems to get lost in it all. Please let us continue using the current, cleaner (IMO) version if we want.

We can't reasonably be running multiple versions of the forums. There are a lot of changes that are happening with this update, and to also support the old version would be complicated and a great deal of work. We hope you can adjust to the new one and will enjoy the new features that come with it.

Karlina wrote:

Other stuff: I'd consider moving the post rating back down under the avatar with the rest of the poster info. Right now that one bit of information is off on it's own and is easily missable.

With this update the post information has been organized so that details about the post are along the top, and details about the author are along the left. The current rating of the post also makes sense to be next to the rating arrows.

Karlina wrote:

Also, guru and admin names are hard to read on the new WoW skin because of the color contrast on the new side bars.

I assume you're using the Parchment theme on WoW? I'll see about making some tweaks to give those better contrast.

Samatman wrote:

I like the new look and features, particularly the post preview pane on mouseover. However, this same feature is causing me a world of misery when browsing the forum from a tablet. Is it possible to disable mouseover features on mobile (or unrecognized) browsers to prevent this?

You can disable Mouseover Previews in your Forum Settings (either from the User Settings or from the top of forum & thread pages). This setting is saved per browser, and per device, so you can disable it on your tablet or phone and still use it on your desktop. Detecting mobile devices and having that disabled by default is something we'll probably add soon, but for now you can simply disable them.

Mazra wrote:

Is there any way to reduce the size of the video preview in posts? Currently they're huuuuge and sort of take up the entire screen, meaning your scrolling action comes to a sudden halt the moment you scroll onto one.

Adding options for this would add too much complexity to using the tags for it, but perhaps we'll reduce the size in general.

Mazra wrote:

Edit: The bottom breadcrumb thing doesn't have mouse-over effects.

Yes, this is because it would be cut off very quickly. In a future update to our path/breadcrumb system we may be able to enable dropdowns there.

Hyolith wrote:

This is probably pretty little, and maybe only bothers me but the quote box on wow classic doesn't feel distinguished enough from the rest of the post. If you kept the quote box dark but kept the rest of the post lighter, like on the left hand side with the username and stuff I think it would help out.

I'll make some adjustments to this.

DSD wrote:

I only quickly skimmed so I apologize if this was already answered but I noticed a follow button. Does that mean if we check that we could conceivably get emails letting us know if there have been more posts? Cause that would be cool!

The Follow option allows you to be notified at the top of any page on the sites when there are new posts to threads you are following. While we'd like to also add email notifications for this, there are a great deal of issues with that, and so there are no current plan to do so.

EDIT: Ok, how do we link images if not premium, when we need premium to upload images to this site?

Non-premium users can currently only link images already existing on the site. We'd like to expand this to allow non-premium users some amount of uploads, but the details of that are still being decided.

Lubriderm Quick Hands wrote:

JerekDain wrote:

Lubriderm Quick Hands wrote:

JerekDain wrote:

Lubriderm Quick Hands wrote:

This mouseover doesn't happen at the same link at the bottom of the page, just the top.

This is because it would be cut off very quickly. In a future update to our path/breadcrumb system we may be able to enable dropdowns there.

Is a drop up menu impossible/crazy to code?

It's not, but there's already an overhaul in progress of the code that handles paths, so I'm avoiding working on changing the live version as well.

Yeah, that's cool, it's nothing crucial, it would just be cool at some point.

This is an update on my thought about subfolders for images. Would it at least be possible to have a private folder and a public folder? I don't mean '**** pics' private, but maybe something for images that have a naughty word or something that aren't really that bad, but you wouldn't want a 11 year old in =10 to be able to see?

Even then, it feels like a token effort at best, in a thinly veiled attempt to avoid the ********* that happened after their last major layout changes. Not that they'll listen this time more than any other, but they could at least pretend a little harder.

The mobile skin needs to be looked at. I'm getting avatars squished over to the right on most of Jerek's posts in this thread, davejohnsan's too. I thought it was just posts with quotes, but all of Lubriderm's posts appear correctly.

Even then, it feels like a token effort at best, in a thinly veiled attempt to avoid the sh*tstorm that happened after their last major layout changes. Not that they'll listen this time more than any other, but they could at least pretend a little harder.

The colors to names are back, but they just look ... weird on all the skins now. Not certain what it is, but I could have sworn there was more than just different colors, whether it was size or bold or something.

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The mobile skin needs to be looked at. I'm getting avatars squished over to the right on most of Jerek's posts in this thread, davejohnsan's too. I thought it was just posts with quotes, but all of Lubriderm's posts appear correctly.

As long as you guys are going to allow embedded Youtube videos in posts, you're going to need some sort of Report button for them. It would also be good if they started out collapsed, with just the title visible as a link, and could be expanded to display in the post. It wouldn't be technically difficult, either.

Where do I go to check my Followed Threads now? I do like the new button for it that's active on every page, not just the first one, but now I'm not sure how to get to the page itself anymore to delete old threads (without getting a response in a followed thread).

Android 2.2 default browser, Motorola Droid 2 Global device. I think it has to do with how the window is sized. Will post a screenshot of what it's doing in a sec. Replicated by resizing my browser window on my PC.

I'm a little confused. I can post images but not access mine from my pre-premium days or what? I can't find any way to access them although I can see them if I look at older threads where they were posted.

On a side note, I entered in a gibberish google chat name for testing purposes, but I can't seem to find it anywhere on my user profile. Where is it supposed to be?

It should now be visible in the General tab of your profile. A bug was preventing it from being displayed, and is now fixed. Note that contact information added to that area is public, though we don't display it to anonymous users or users with less than 5 posts.

Jophiel wrote:

I'm a little confused. I can post images but not access mine from my pre-premium days or what? I can't find any way to access them although I can see them if I look at older threads where they were posted.

Hm, we may want to modify that behavior to allow you access to old premium images. I'm not sure though, that's probably something that will have to be decided by someone else.

Majivo wrote:

It would be nice to be able to see the rating of a thread from the forum index, like we used to.

This was removed because while sometimes useful, it wasn't greatly so. If we were to re-add it we'd want to do so in a way that takes up little to no room. For now though, it will just be visible when viewing a thread.

At the top of a thread, when you mouse over the links to the forums you're in, it will produce a pop up of the other forums under that same heading. Either get rid of that, or add it to the bottom as well as it's useless at the top of the thread when there's a link back to the forum at the bottom of the thread as well.

I don't know if you're still working on the mobile skin or not, but as it currently stands, avatars are all fine, but the width of the forums exceeds the boundaries of the screen on my mobile, regardless of screen orientation.

I don't know if you're still working on the mobile skin or not, but as it currently stands, avatars are all fine, but the width of the forums exceeds the boundaries of the screen on my mobile, regardless of screen orientation.

This is a temporary fix to keep it from breaking the layout. I'll be able to work on it more later (tonight or tomorrow) when I have access to an Android device. A quick question though - when you see the Report button do you see "! Report" or just "!" on your Android?

Scrolling with YouTube links causes some pretty massive broken refreshing, on the FFXI skin, it looks as ugly as an inbred redneck, and I dislike the Decent names being in blue, but other than that... it's pretty ****.

!Report, but the icon looks a bit close to the text,and the Bookmark text encroaches on the icon as well. The edit icon is squished too. Quote and Reply have a space between the icon and text, which look much cleaner.

It would be nice to be able to see the rating of a thread from the forum index, like we used to.

This was removed because while sometimes useful, it wasn't greatly so. If we were to re-add it we'd want to do so in a way that takes up little to no room. For now though, it will just be visible when viewing a thread.

I don't know about you, but I have just tons of extra space on the forum index. I suppose it's covered by the mouseover, though that only works if you haven't opened the thread previously.

On an unrelated note, clicking the Quote button on posts would be more useful if it worked with Quick Reply.